Cotton

Nigeria Urged to Act as 180 Textile Factories Shut Down

Africa Elham Habibi - 0
Nigeria’s Federal Government has been urged to take immediate action to protect the country’s remaining cotton, textile and garment production assets following the reported...
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Africa

Can Africa Turn Its Cotton Strength Into a Global Textile Industry?

Africa is an important supplier of raw cotton to the global economy, yet it captures only a limited...
Nonwovens

Trützschler Highlights Cotton Technologies for Premium Nonwovens

Marking World Cotton Day, Trützschler Nonwovens has highlighted the opportunities cotton offers for producing premium spunlace nonwovens, alongside...
Exhibition News

Cork Meets Cotton: Textile Innovation at Intertextile Shanghai Home Textiles 2026

Drink your wine… then make fabric from the cork! One of the materials that really caught my attention at...
Fiber & yarn

Kenya’s Cotton Revival Shifts Focus From Farming to Textile Manufacturing

Thika Cloth Mills says Kenya’s renewed cotton production could support a wider industrial value chain encompassing ginning, spinning,...

Egypt ready for world’s largest textile factory by March 2022

Egypt
Egypt is going full throttle with the construction of a textiles factory in the city of El-Mahalla that is slated to become the world's...

Brazilian cotton index drops 4.96% in March

Fiber & yarn
The CEPEA/ESALQ Index for cotton in Brazil dropped by 4.96 per cent for the month from February 26 to March 31, closing at 4.8088...

South African woven cotton textile sector workers get 5.5% rise

Middle East and Africa
Those working in the woven cotton textile sub-sector in South Africa will receive a 5.5 per cent wage increase, with effect from last month,...

Uzbekistan to prioritize local cotton for their textiles industry

Fiber & yarn
Uzbekistan; Cotton over the marketing year (MY 2020-21), Uzbekistan expects to grow around 3.1 million cotton bales. A survey from the International Textile MagazineTextilegence says...

Benin starts training session on PRC machinery to boost cotton sector

Middle East and Africa
About 225 agricultural operators in Benin recently started a month-long training session on Chinese expertise in farm machinery operation. The target is to improve cotton...

Better Cotton Sourcing Reaches Record 1.7 Million Tonnes in 2020

Fiber & yarn
In 2020, 192 Better Cotton Initiative (BCI) retailer and brand members sourced a record 1.7 million tonnes of Better Cotton, despite the severe disruptions...

Nigeria’s Cotton Market Sees Rebound After Textile Forex Ban

Middle East and Africa
By: Fatima Muktar The volume of production and consumption of cotton in the country rose by at least 7.5 per cent in 2020 after the...

SIMA appeals for withdrawal of import duty on cotton

Textile Market
Stating that the imposition of 10 per cent import duty on cotton is a severe blow for the cotton textile value chain, The Southern...

Cotton Exports to China Increased Significantly

Textile World
Chinese ports’ cotton stocks are primarily from India, which ends the battle between India and China. As input from cotton traders and international businessmen in...

Cotton: A Golden Opportunity for South Africa?

Fiber & yarn
BY: COBUS DE BRUYN Cotton is considered one of the world's greatest poverty alleviating crops, with 150 million people worldwide relying on it for income. According...
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